Raining reviews to King Philip VI after his Christmas speech – Univision

Raining reviews to King Philip VI after his Christmas speech – Univision

King Philip VI of Spain called on Wednesday to “nip and unceremoniously corruption” in its Christmas Eve speech, just two days after a judge decided to prosecute her sister, Infanta Cristina, for tax fraud.

“ was expected to make a more clear and specific mention of the Infanta Cristina ”

” The fight against corruption is an essential objective “to regenerate public life, said Philip VI in his first Christmas message since it was proclaimed king in June.

However, Philip VI made no explicit mention corruption case involving his sister, Infanta Cristina, and who hopes to renounce his dynastic rights.

The theme was taken up by the newspaper El País which said in its editorial that a word “processing his sister, who is not a family problem but a serious setback for the crown and a serious concern for Spain, had done their more convincing intervention. “

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Meanwhile, according to the newspaper La Nacion Argentina, Gaspar Llamazares, the progressive minority party Izquierda Unida (IU) stated that ” expected to do much more clear and specific to the Infanta Cristina “mention. Llamzares described the speech as “continuity and frustrating because basically did not tell. Has not met expectations”.

The Spanish princess and her husband, the Duke of Palma, will go on trial for embezzlement.

The king, sitting next to a window and next to two family photos, acknowledged that Such behavior occurs “outrage and disappointment” among citizens, but “it is true that those responsible for misconduct are responding to them, that is proof of how our rule of law”.

“Few issues like this arise a review so unanimous. We must root out corruption and unceremoniously,” said the king in his speech, without making direct references to the situation of his sister, two days after Judge Jose Castro of the courts of Palma de Mallorca decided to send it to trial.

The trial judge issued “against 17 people, including the Infanta Cristina, as cooperator necessary two offenses against the Treasury” for something more than 300,000 euros committed by her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, the Superior Court on Monday Balearics.

“The honesty of public servants is a cornerstone of our coexistence in Spain we all want healthy, clean “said the king to a country where corruption is the second major concern of the Spaniards just behind unemployment, a scourge to the monarch also spoke.

” Unemployment rates are still unacceptable and frustrate the expectations of our youth, “said Don Felipe, who insisted that the fight against unemployment” must remain our top priority “in a country with an unemployment rate of 23.67% in the third quarter.

However, after six years of crisis, the monarch, wearing a dark gray suit, white shirt and blue tie, wanted to send a message of hope by saying that “the main macroeconomic indicators are improving and have recovered economic growth and job creation.”

The king also specifically referred to Catalonia after the symbolic vote on the independence of the northeastern Spanish region last November 9 and the rise of separatism in it, to say that “it is clear that we all need.”

After stating that Catalonia has contributed “to the stability of Spain and its economic progress “after the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975, insisted that” all part of a common core of which are complementary with one another. “

“Nobody in Spain today is enemy of anyone,” he insisted, saying that “the disagreements are not resolved with emotional or breakups.”

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